Güntensperger Käse

The Güntensperger cheese dairy is located in the lower Toggenburg and is run as a family business by the Güntensperger family. Cheesemaker Reto took over the cheese dairy from his father only a few years ago. Together with his younger brother Marcel, the business has been steadily modernized and the ripening rooms expanded.

As Appenzeller quotas (overall association production capacity) have reduced in recent years, Reto and his father have partitioned their milk supply, sending the 75 lower altitude farms’ milk to their Appenzeller production and using the remaining 50 Bergmilch suppliers (whose Brown Swiss and Braunvieh herds average 10-30 cows) for their own recipes.